Army of the West

In 1845 General Kearney's

Army of the West

Guided by Kit Carson

followed the Gila River from

New Mexico to the occupation

of California in the Mexican

War, thus opening the

southern snowfree route to

the Pacific Coast.

Marker is on U.S. 70 at milepost 347, on the left ...

U.S. Army of the West — Mormon Battalion

Longest Sustained March in U.S. Military History, 1846-1847.

Between 1846 and 1848, the United States and Mexico went to war. One of the major directives of the United States during this war was to secure its western border and to occupy ...